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<span id="html-hypertext-markup-language-support"></span><h1>20.1. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-html" title="html: Helpers for manipulating HTML."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">html</span></tt></a> &#8212; HyperText Markup Language support<a class="headerlink" href="#module-html" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.4/Lib/html/__init__.py">Lib/html/__init__.py</a></p>
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<p>This module defines utilities to manipulate HTML.</p>
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<dd><p>Convert the characters <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&amp;</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&gt;</span></tt> in string <em>s</em> to HTML-safe
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<p>Submodules in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">html</span></tt> package are:</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="html.parser.html#module-html.parser" title="html.parser: A simple parser that can handle HTML and XHTML."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">html.parser</span></tt></a> &#8211; HTML/XHTML parser with lenient parsing mode</li>
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